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Wednesday. June 21, VMS
THE PROBLEM OF RE.IIIIIION.
The subjugation of the rebels, in .the
only sense in which it was ever purposed
by the government to subdue them, has
at length been accomplished. It proved
to be the most stupendous military achieve
ment in the annals of history. The de-
termination of the loyal people of the
country to preserve' the integrity of the
Union, and their unexampled valor effect
,ed this result. Now that our armies have
performed their mission, comes the hard
est pßiblem for the solution of oar states
men. It is not enough that the territorial
intewity-of the nation should have been
preserved and the honor of our
. tiag
sus
tained. _ft is not our desire that the smit
ten disloyal Stales shall be held iii an in
ferior political position, to be goveined as
provinces by coercion. The feelings of
• our hearts. as well as the spirit of freedom
require that there should be no inequality
. in the citizens of the Republic, excepting,
of course, such degradation as justice de
mands in punishment at crime. f The peo
ple of the South must be bleinled in a
community of interests, privileges and
sentiments With those of the North. The
— effects of this bitter war are to be obliter
ated as soon as possible. The work of
conquering the rebels in arms was easy in
comparison ;with the task of - restoring
_them to a brotherly and harmonious sym
pathy with us, whom they hate met with
such deadly malice. and *hokthey have
-so long been taught to regard with malev
olence:. The mortiticationiof tmeipected
defeat in the trial of arms ; the. humiliation
of having their territory overrun upon
every acre ; their forts. their ships, their
arms captured ; their wealth destroyed ;
their unrighteous privileges rudely abro
gated; their 'sons slain ; all prevent a
' ready and graceful acceptance of the of-
fers of free and hearty fellowship we shall
"extend to them. The highest qualities of
— statesmanship are needed to manage this
great theme—the utmost wisdom and pru-
Bence upon the part of our rulers and
people. -- No - unnecessary harshness, no
—injudicious leniency will serve. We be
- lieve the administration will manage this
difficult task wisely and well. But they
need the support of the people now as.
much at least as they needed their sup
port in waging war. It is painful to see,
however, that this encouragement is not
given with the unanimity that it should
be. The rebel s,ympa i fhisers among its,
who co-operated with the traitors during
the fierce struggle.:inst ended. t and control
led the opposition at the last. election, seem
to feel that their party existence depends
upon their making odious, and thwarting
the administration. and are busy in impe
ding and deranging the efforts of the gov
ernment They 'seek to make the people,
North and South, believe that the Union-
ists are cruel and unjust; t4at they have
the simple desire of elevatiag the negro
and procuring him power. And as they
apologized for the traitors while-in arms,
they are striving toleep alive the'resent
truintx,of th traitors and preveril their
cordial re-union with the kindredthoy so
foolishly abandoned and so revengefully
fought. The treason of these Northern
recreants is no less than that of the over
thrown traitors who built up the short
- lived Corifederac,y. But we believe. yea,
we know, that the evil they are devising
will have no power to do much peimanent
' mischief.
The band of s the Almighty di t spOser of
events has hitherto guided us. The voice
of mankind has welcomed our triumph
with rejoicings. The mission of this Na
tion is assured, its unity fully and forever
confirmed. The right of the people to
rule, and the right of all people to eleva
tion and prosperity are maintained. It
is a sad spectacle to see our citizens, men
whom in their social and friendly relations
we respect and love, arraying themselves
against the common sentiments of man
kind, and setting their faces against the
everlasting truth. They know not what
they do. They stand apart from the mas
ses of their fellow-men. their feeble voices
,of : diacord lost in the swelling volume
which singsfhosannas to the triumph of
their race. It is the men who denied the
right of the soldier to vote, who proclaitii
ed the war an unrighteous failure, who
opposed the ratification of the constitu-
Jional amendment, who are striving to in
terrupt the harmonious settlement of the
perplexities upon us, and seek to keep up
the hostility of the people of the South to
their blood relations of the loyal States
The most scandalous villification of the
President and his cabinet arp circulated
greedily to weaken those functionaries in
public confidence. The accusations of
hasty and testy generals are seized with
avidity. and no hero can make. himself
half so acceptable as when he is using his
influence to prejudice the administration.
Verily his defeat of the enemy is nearly
compensated in the estimation of thoie
- men by a raid upon the Secretary of War.
It is evident that these factious opponents
of the government do not realize the po
sitions they occupy. The jealousy with
which we watch the faintest encroachment
upon popular rights may for a time save
them from the scorn so soon to overwhelm
them. lint the day will come when the
people of this restored - and happy Repub
lic will regard as the most dangerous and
meanest of its enemies the men who lived
in the midst of their loyal countrymen.
and labored to cripple its energies. when
struggling for its life—the men who, when
that struggle ended in sustaining the su
premacy of law and order. sought to fos-
• ter discontent, snllenues4i, bitterness awl
unarmed disloyalty among the people led
hack by force to their allegiance.
T. B. PETERSON & BROS. Philadelphia; Pa.,
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Martyrdom, and Funeral of Abraham Lincoln "
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Cemetery, at Springfield, Illinois; with Address
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'With a full acconift of the escape, pursuit, appre
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the murder and Mire r principal scend - in the work.
Price Seventy-five in paper, or One dollar in cloth.
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a dozen, fifty copies for - Twenty Dollars, $37.7,0
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price.
ENIASTED men of volunteers mustered out of
service under recent °Meta from the War De
partment are to he considered as so mustered out
on account of Government no longer requiring
their services,and--are.,entified to tialbalance of
ss hatever bounty they may at tlie.,if t nie be legally
receiving. From this bounty balarge are to be
excepted those discharged who weii ,- enlisted un
der the Act of July 4, 1864, and the call of the
President of July 18.1;"64, and such as are clear
ly shown to be discharged for confirmed disability
or as pensioners. Veterans who go out'of service
under General Orders, Nn. 77, Current Series, du
not go out, because their services are no limner
required. the arc expressly excepted fur ope
ration, under orders for the reduction of the army,
unless prisoners of war. Ron-commissioned offi
cers of infantry and cavalry volunteers, mustered
our of service by reason of being supernumeraries,
in nongoliantinn. ennor-ten-nr upon recent - orders
for the reduction of the army, are to be consid
ered as mustered out on account of their services
being no longer required by the Government, and
are entitled to the balance of the bounty remain
ing unpaid.
Miss CL RA BARTON, of Washington, has hit
upon an excellent device for bringing to the knowl
edge of friends the fate or whereabouts of missing
soldiers. Some wee AT she published an invi
tation to the public to send to -her address, in
Washington! a description of missing soldiers, giv
ing the name. regiment, company, and the State
to which the) ..lively belong. In responco,
she ha 4 already received such descriptions of
some thousands. Roll No. lis a large sheet, con
taining. we believe, about fifteen hundred names
of missing prisoners of war. Twenty thousand
copies of this roll have been printed and cirintla
ted all through the loyal States, and among the
camps; and she now calls upon soldiers and Mil
ers who can give information concerning the mis
sing men to write to her immediately. Great
care should be token to write the name and ad
dress iu every instance plainly. Her plan is high
ly appreciated and approved by the War Depart
ment and by the President. All letters must he
directed to Miss Clara,Barton, Washington, D. C.
lAmosG the petitions received by the President
on the 17th asking special pardon, is that of Robert
E. Lee, late Commander of the Rebel forces. and
Alexander H. Stephens, late Vice-Pre.ident - of
the late Confederacy. Mr. Stephens enters at
length into an apology or vindication of the action
he has taken. Among the reasons which led him
to espouse the Rebel cause, he rcfertrto the fact
that the Tribune, knownoo be a powerful and
influential supporter °film Republican Adminis
tration, openly advtleated the right of the South
era.people to independence. Mr. Stephens infer
red from this that independence would las cone?:
ded to the South without war. He acknowledges
that the question has been decided forever, and
he desiies hereafter to be, and to be considered a
good and loyal citizen of the United States. Mr.
Stephens' document-covers some seventy pages.
THE Harrir : hurg l'elfgraph, the publication of
which nassusPended for several dais in conse
quence of the deListruction of its office by fire. re
appeared in a now dress on Saturday last. The
compthitort on the paper occupy temporarily,
with their cases. the lobby of the House of Rep
rEtlelitatlVFF.
The. Chicago Journal, in welcoming Gen. Grant
to that ity, says: "Oyer the door of an humble
saddlery store in Galena, Illinois, there is a sign
with the inscription Grant & Son." That son is
the man who led-the armies of the Union to Tic
thry and destroyed the rebellion.
WE are indebted to Hon. Leonard Myers, M
C.. For valuable public doenmenta,
CORRY TO RIDGW,AY
A Haitty City—Corry Reared in the. Wil•
derneos—its People and Visitor--The
Oil Refinery-The Philadelphia and Erie
Raliroad--Erossing t h e Alleirhenies—
Ridgway—The Climate—The koresta of
the litonntains--ACoal Min in g—Jadge
Gillis.
Editori& corr,.9x,rlence of tim_rranklin Repository.
Rux.wAY, June 5, 1865.
I left the restless, heedless worshippers of the
tank anti drill in the Oil region on Thursday last,
and after a pleasant sojourn at the McHenry
House in Meadville—the best Hotel I have yet
found in all my travels—l now find myself in this
delightful "sequestered spot," where the clear,
cool waters of the Elk and Clarion and the green
Allegh'enies give hearty assurance that here is -
fags from the cruel, scorching pranks of Old Sol
in the "heated term." From. Meadville we sought
variety by an evening and night in Corry. It is
an Oil town. Oil located it; Oil built it after Oil
fashion; Oil sustains' it. Four years ago it was a
deinse wilderness. One humble domicil, I believe,
broke the solitude that reigned there until the
°lidera& made it a city. It now numbers some
six thousand population—all rich, or growing rich,
or hoping to grow rich on Oil. The houses are
all of wood, furnished by the lofty pines which
but a little while ago flourished °Oho spot where
they now make up the habitations of the efferes
cing people who inhabit the place The coon, the
hedge-hog, the porcupine, the deer and the wolf,
who but a few months ago reigned hi undisputed
sway there, still sisit ihe suburbs of the city to
renew their amazement at the heartless innova
tions ill mail upon their Mug unbroken solitude.'
The .trcets are still adorned with nature's handi
work. Majestic stumps still grace the principal
avenues, and here and there an old king of the
fore6t stands in loneliness to ;nark the progress
that id whirling around him . It is the junction
of the Oil City Railroad with the Philadelphia
and Erie, and the Atlantic. and Great Western,
and is the starting point from the through lines
for the Oil regions. Here aredropped in Match
less confusion hundreds of people daily on their
way to seek fortunes in the oleagenious product
of Cherry Run and Pit-hole. : - .The depot is must
of the time a second edition of the confusion of -
Babel. All tongues are heard in earnest chatter
inqUiring for baggage and for favorite points be
yond "Shaffer's flirm," the termime, of th e r a.
road. Thus they come and go—men and women,
&and young, grave and gay, all intent upon the
sudden acquisition of fortune. Here are briefless
lawyers and churchless parsons jostling with rot
icking Young America and "Paddy from Cork,"
and all are d;recting their steps to the same her
itable tomb of 'countless hopes.
T cannot sly much for tho botch; or other at
apt furiktiti lituwettaiv, ittplibezebun,
tractions of Corry as a place of resort. i _To such
as love to be crowded into little rooms to suffo
cate with heat to the distracting ham of colossal
mosquitoes, I commend the city of Corry. The
largest Oil Refinery out of Boston is located there.
It "puts through " about one hundred and fifty
barrels per day, and employs a capital of half a
million of dollars.. Through the politeness of the
Agent, our company was favored 'with an inside
view of this immense establishment. It makes
one feel rather uncomfortable to stand inside of a
room and bitold that an accidental spark of fire
would send building and visitors to their last ac.
count in a second of time. But so it is, and men
work here from year to year and thus far no un
timely graves owe their inhabitants to the explo
sion of the Refinery. In every room where the
oil is worked in the various stages of refining, no
light or fire is allowed to enter. They are lighted
by air-tight glass lamps fixed in the wall, which
are lit from the outside, but even with all the
precaution the constantly escaping gas every now
and then goes off like gun -cotton "We often take
fire here," said the Agent in the coolest manner
possible, " but we soon smother it out." When
fire reaches the gas in any of the apartments the
whole room fills with the destructive element.
The doors are at once closed arid an immense
Volume of steam turned on to the flame, and it
is soon mastered. But in one department a spark -
of fire would be fatal. .Naptha, the combustible
element of oil,ris hero gathered. and it explodes
just like powder. Still it is gathered and barreled
and shipped from day to day, and men seem to
consider it no more perilous than other pursuits.
Every distinct property of the oil is here separa
ted and sent off to be applied to its proper use.
No part of it is lost. A portion of the refuse is
now used to produce the finest of colors, and even
- the clement that gums machinery unless entirely
extracted from the• lubricator, is broueht out of
the oil in beautiful cakes. and swallowed It the
innocent lover of medicated and sweetened muns.
I believe that none of, the party left Corry re
gretfully. Although tbe- - city has been reared in
a forest, scarcely a tree shelters any of the houses.
and if any other section can produce stouter and
snore voracious mosquitoes,' pity the peop:e who
live there., Betides the wt.ter is most unwhole
some, and the first admonition a resident gives a
friend on arriving there is not to drink too much
water, as it produces a rash that they cull the
water-itch. But what is au occasional turn with
the itch if men can make money So the citizens
seem to argue. mid Corry increases in population
daily, and will continue to increase while int con
tinues to be sought for profitably. We a ere for
tunate in meeting with Mr. Frank 'Thompson
there, one of our Chambemburg bop. whe is now
Stiperintendent of the Oil Creek road, and owe
him much for his sunny c i eurte,ies. Ile has. 1
believe, tilled more responsible railroad positions
than any man of his age in the State. and promi
ses to be one of the first railroad men in the
colintn
From - Corry we took the Philadelphia and Erie
road for this point, to pay a long promised visit
•
to my old firieud Souther and enjoy rile cool,putr A ,
air of the Alleghenies. The main summit is ws,,t,
of this some twenty miles at Kane—so named M
honor.of Gen. Kane of the Ituektails, who had
quite recovered from his wounds and now maim
ges his vast coal and timber lands in this region.
The summit is over 2100 feet above the level of
the sea. and has been selected by the railroad
company as the point titr extensive snops. The
forest is just cleared off enough to make room for
the buildings of the place, including a good rail
road hotel. From thence we '
pasa down ~ .the
main stem of the Alleghenies, along the head
waters of the Clarion, until Rid,gway opens out at
the confluence of Elk creek with the river. It
is the count) seat of Elk county, sad contains
about fitly dwellings, all of wood and apparently
designed by the same architect and nearly all
painted white. it is nestled in the chasest r"ftafi-
ble ionbraco of the towering mountains, and
.greeta the Corry-baked and dust-covered traveler
with-_a most delightful atmosphere and feasts
him on trout, and venison. On every side the
mountain looms up hard by the town, and the
ingress and exit for the railroad are by the sinu
ous courses of the streams which ripple and gur
gle through the shadows of the monster pines and
decorated laurels. 'We had their warmest weather.
widie here, and yet the blanket was essential to
it comfortable nighti. , sleep. I believe that it is
o-ual—certainly not uncommon, for frost to whi
ten the growth of every month of the year, and
vegetation is Irma a month to six weeks
,latt.r
than in the Cumberland Valley. .
more
than one hundred miles along the Erie rend east
kid west of this point not a-stock of Wheat can
be seen, and I reverently raised my hat last eve
ning to a promising potato patch, so glad was I
to find something in the way of man's wants
flourish in this region. Here and there are thin
fields of rye to be seen, but they must but poorly
reward the husbandman. Of course our tall,
well eared corn is also a stranger to the farmers,
in this region ; but they have a species of corn
that matures in about the time we require for
our sweet table-corn. Beyond this little corn,
potatoes etal rye, the soilof whole sections for many
miles in every direction produces nothing and
never will. There is an agricultural settlement,
called St. Marys, ten miles East of this,,peopled
by German Catholics., but I don't think that
Americans could live there by the cultivation of
the soil. The Germans, however, seem to thrive
pretty well, and they have a fine school, a large
chapel, with the largest church organ in the State
and that manufactured here in the mountains.
They have also sonic exquisite paintings in the
village. 'They don't get distracted with politics, •'
as they all vote one way. I 'remember some
P years ago, when I made a small experiment for
a State office, I got one vote in St. Marys, to
some 400 against me. I believe that the place
got too hot fertile authorof thatvote. Since then
the opposition to the Democracy have risen to the
dignity of five and sometimes even eight votes:
but they came from outsiders, as the colony pre:
Rents all unbroken plalanx for Democracy. Hav
ing emigrated to secure liberty, they vote steadi
ly to strengthen slavery, and call that Democra
cy. But when men morefavored by birth and
education do the same thing, I presume_ that I
ought not to complain of the Germans who have
been closed up in the wilderness for many years,
and scarcely know yet that the rebel armies have
I capitulated and that slavery is abolished.
The lumber of this region-is its chief staple,
and it is indeed a vast source of wealth. Within
a few
_rods of the county court-house stand the
tall pines-inviting the sturdy arm of the lumbilt
man; and 'on every, side, as far as anything is vis
ible, are the old Alleghenies clad in their colossal
evergreens. Toone who has learned regard a
few acres of knotty, scrubby oak as almost sa
cred because of the value of the timber, the ma
jestic pines of this region could not but appear
as meriting the profoundest . reverence. They
stand in places so thickly studded that one can
hardly be getout from among the rest, and it is
not uncommon to see them ten feet in circum
ference and as much as one hundred - and thirty
feet high. I gazed in wonder upon the apparent
ly boundless forest that greeted the eye when I
stood upon one of the higlespurs of the mountain.
It seemed as if earth was one eternal forest of
green, with the'laurels and wild flowers woven in
chaplets to bewilder the beholder with nature's
loveliness. Here stand beside tie the proud 'noun
. tain hemlocks which have survived the decay of
ten generations of man. For three centuries their
tops and branches have been tuned to pensive
melody by the-morning and evening breeze, and
answered the hoarse storm with the rude music
that' lulled the wolf and panth4 to repose ere
man beheld this boundless beauty, nr sought to
fashion it to his uses.
Coal is also found in abundance in different
sections of the country. A Boston Company is
operating quite close to this pLace r and the Su
perintendent, Mr Veazie, very! kindly took our
party to the mines over the coal. road. It starts
at the intersection with the Erie road, and rises
up over four hundred feet on 'a space of half a -
mile in width. The train runs backwards and
forwards over the switch-back road, each time
rising higher and higher, until a hill that is al
most perpendicular is climbed by a locomotive,.
and fro'in thence the grade is comparatively easy
to the mines on the top of the mountain. The
mines are in their infancy, and the vein opened
is but three feet thick, and link been worked in
horizontally some six hundred feet. A very phil
osophical little mule, something larger than a
Norway rat, pulled the rickety; car into the mine
over a temporary track well 'itithedded in mud,
and the supply well kept up by thedrippings from
the arch. Occasionally the, car,would get oil the
track, and when the ladles screamed, as scream
they ever must on such an occasion, master mule
responded hy_ vigorous kicking. The ladies
were made profoundly quiet for the balance of
the explonitiou by the assurance on the part of
1 the driver that the mule always would kick when
anybody 'made a noise. The mines visited, the
train was started down the mountain with the
irou-homiin the rear to play the important part
of brakesrmiii. and we returned in the cool of the
evening afier a most delightful and instructive
visit to the ; black diamons of the Alleghenies. '
This Place was opened as .. early as 1323 by
lion. James L. Gillis, who settled here as the
agent of the Ridgway lands. He is still living
and is now a visitor to his old home. He look s
robust and heady for a man of nearly four-setirc
winter,, and loves to tell hi , early exploits in the
then almost impenetrable 'wildernei,s. Thert•
was no road of any kind that reaehe'd this point
when he located here. and for' forty years there
were no means .1 getting the saluablo coal and
lumber of this regi,m to market excepting by the
freshets of the Cimino. Thu coal therefore
remained in the bowels of the Earth until a
year ago, when the completion of the Philadel
phia and Erie road—a new artery of national
and commercial lifti slier ,effected by, the wis
dom of State legblatioa,_ Now the Atlantic and
the Lake, ,strike hands in this net-work of moun
tains, and the wild shriek of the iron-horse is
Iheard almost hourly as he Iclimbs and winds his
way along, hearing to the marts of trade and
commerce the boundless w i rdth thatbas slataher
eithere for thousands of yttars. A. it. it.
W 6 ASFIINOX:
Nca - ro tittlfra4-e and Heetinstruetion—the
Conspiracy Trial—Bien Wood's Couipti.
eity —The liettysbn* Ceremonies-Sol.
tilers Mustered Ont÷Appointmerd of A
MatrsitalMrs. Surralt.
Cort,sponavnee of the Franklilt Repository.
WAS/111%7W: ern . . June 1ith,1865.
Negro suffrage and reconstruction are at f pres
ent the nil absorbing topic of gossip in this city.
Whenever two or more are assembled together,
be they preaeiwr, politicians. women. Children,.
soldiers'or lit.groi7 they talk of nothing else from
morning till night. Everybody appears to retire
to lied with the everlasting darkio on his-brain
and rise , in the morning with reconstruction on
the point of 1t tongir. The excitement that
fr;ln the eonspiracy trial has all died out.
The do is tilled with people from every sec
tion of the South, men and women, come to see
the President on reconstruction and against negro
suffrage. - The President grants interviews and
listens to their arguments, but whether they are
haviug weight on the future policy of the Presi
dent remains to be seen. On the other side we
Mice here eminent and loyal men from the North,
arguing agaiti.4 the supposed future policy and
the persuasions of these wily Southenaers who
control southern sentiment, who have themselves
been rebels, tx ho are still rebels at heart, who
are bathed but not changed. They are beaten in
'war but nut in sentiment, m hen the subject of the
darkie is broached. It is said that should the
President eontinue in the coarse at present indi
cated, it o ill not meet the siMetion of Congress.
Should Congress not meet till acct December,
ever}' Southern State will hate then here a dele
gate knocking at the door, similar to the one of
List session from Louisiana. !There is no probt
,bility that Congress will admit them and we may
'expect a repitition of the scenes of days gone
These so called penitent rebels now here, are
walking the streets as haughty and defiant as in
days of old and are receiving the attention of
persons holding high official positions, which will
inevitably lead to something bad in the end.
Last Saturnay when the military court closed.
its session for the day, the members thought all
the evidence was in. On Monday morning both
sides had discovered new evidence and there is
now no telling when it will close. The testimony
of yesterday proves Ben Wood's complicity with
the leading rebels in Canada. having drawn laist
fall '25,000 from .Jake Thompson. There is some
comment on it in the eity,imt no surprise. His
arrest has been ordered and he will have a chance
to explain this transaction—this intimacy with
our public enemies, the instigators of the PreSi
dent's assassination, while at the same time he
was holding a seat as' a sworn member.of Con
gress. His record looks - blacker than that of his
associate editor, John Mitchell.
Gen. Geary left to-day for Gettysburg to coin
pleto arrangements for laying the corner-stone of
the monument on the 4th of July. Gen. Grant
has given permission forone regiment of infantry,
one regiment of cavalry and two full bands rf
music to be present„ Arrangements are making
with all railroad "companies to issue excursion
tickets. From present appearances it prbmiks
a grand affair.
150,000 soldiers with baggage and horses have
been sent from here by railroad within the last
twenty days Only 20,000 more 'remain here at
present ordered to be mustered out. An order
is about to be issued to discharge 200,000 men in
the Smithern and West'ern Departments. Then
there will be another order mustering out all men
whose term expires previous to January 1, 1e06._
Judge David S Gooding, a prominent lawyer
of Indiana, who stumped the State for Lincoln
and Jolinstin. has been appointed Marshal of this
District, and yesterday entered On its duties.
This appointment has completely upset the calcu
lations of an eminent politician who was sure of
getting it into his family.
Yesterda) the city waOloodcd with handbills
sntitb.4l, Trial of Mrs. ,Surratt. or contrast of
the Past and Present" The prisoner is painted
in bright colors as a "christian lady, gifted with
excellent qualities and noted fiir her good deeds;
a devoted wife and fond mother, pious, kind and
charitable to a fault," &e. - The character of the
witnesses against her is impugned; the Irestruint
on her liberty, &c. - is denounced, and alcoatrast
drawn between inir4vAll time and the dark ages
in relation to th4reatment of "weak, defenceliss
women." This appeal in behalf of Mrs. Surratt
is worked up in high style, and is working a con
trary effect natio public mind from that intended
by the writer. 'N. C.
THE editor of the Unicersatist having been cen
sured by a correspondent for intimating that Jeff
Davis should be hang, replies :—"After the ex
citement has passed, and Jeff. Davii is hung, we
may be dom.! But in all soberness let us say, if
Jefferson Davis is not hung. the hand that in this
land ever after signs a death-warrant should drop
from,its socket. If he is pardoned, let every• pn-
Ann door open."
—lien. Canby has arrested the man wtio last
winter in an Alabama paper offered to be one of
a number of persona to pay a millym dollars' for
the mnrder of Mr. Lincoln.
POLITICAM, INTELLIEGENCE.
—The Democracy of Westmoreland county
Lave nominated H. R Pipeiaud James Rutledge
for Assembly.
, —Governor John Ilrough has addressed a let
ter to the people ot Ohio, declining a nomination
for re-election.
--Dr. St. Clair, of the Indiana District, has an
pounced himself as a candidate for re-election to
the State Senate.
—Thdmas Rose, Esq., has been nominated by
the Democracy of Greene county to represent
them in the next Legislature.
—The Cleveland Plain Dealer intimates that
Gen. Sherman will be run for Governor, by the
Democrats of Ohio, at the ensuing election.
—Governor Brownlow, of Tennessee, has issued
a proclamation ordering an election for members
of Congress on Thursday, the third day of August
next.
—The Connecticut Legislature by a two-thirds
vote and over, has adopted a constitutional amend
ment striking out the word " white," and giving
the, nogro the ballot • 4 ...
• —The Chinn men of Greene county have nom
inated Silag IL Baily for Assembly, and instruc
ted their conferees to vote for R. W. Downey,
Esq . , for Bresident Judge.
—Hon. Samuel A. Gilmore is the choice of the
Democracy of Fayette county for the Judgeship.
Charles E. Boyle, Esq., is the Democratic candi
date for the Legislature.
—The President has appointed Andrew J.
Hamilton, of Texas, to be Provisional Governor
of that State, and also Jamei John'son, of Geor
gia, to be Provisional Governor of Georgia.
—The Johnstown Tribune urges the nomina
tion of Obl. Jacob M. Campbell,lately of the 54th
Regiment, for - State Senator from the District
coutoosed of Cambria. Indiana. and Jeffemon
cfmntie,
—The new Free State Constitution of Mig•
i•ouri has been adopted. Full particulars are not
yet received, but enough is known to warrant the
statement. The majority will be between 5;000
and-fi,ooo.
—Hon. Green Clay Smith has been re-nomina
ted to Congress by acclamation, by the Union men
of the Sixth (Covington) District of Kentucky,
There was no opposing candidate. The General
has accepted the nomination.
—Gen. W. W. Ircia. of Heaver county, present
Coinissa ry General of the State. is recommended
for Auditor General by a correspondent of the
Harrisburg Tslegrao. He is eminently quali
fied and would make, a most' efficeut officer.
—The Union men of Butler have nominated
Col..Tno. A. Purviance for Senator, and Hem
Pillow and John H. Negley (Present member)
for Assembly. As Butler has thepresent Senator,
McCandless, we presume that Lawrence and
Armstrong will hardly ratify the nominatiMi of
Col. Purviance.
—Hon. Robert C. Pitman, of New Bedford, is
mentioned as likely to be the temperance candi
date for Governor of Musachusetts at the ap
proaching election. He was a member of the last
State Senate, and took the foremost part in ef
forts to securelegislation looking to the •enforce
ment of stringent laws against liquor selling.
—Maj. Gen. Rosman has been nominated at
Frankfort by a number of highly respectable gen
tlemen, members of both branches of the legisla
ture, as a candidate for United States Senator,
to be elected by the next Legislature of Ken
tucky. The Louisuille Journal understands that
it is the purpose of Gen. lineman to make a gen
eral canvass of the State.
.—Betiah Magoffin, of Kentucky, long one of
the extremest opponents of the Government, has
returned to his State and taken the stump in hi
rer of the amendment of the Nations/ Constitu
tion for the abolition of humrin slavery. Under
the influence of Senator Jas. Guthrie, Governor
Bramlette, ex-Governor Magoffiu,.and others, the
Kentucky Legislature cannot hesitate - long in
concurring'in the joint resolution of Congress.
-An the Potomac , Congressional District of
Virginia, stretching from Alexandria to Freder
ick county, and south to include Fauquier, three
candidates are already in the field: Levris.Mc-
Kenzie, Gilbert S. Minor and George Rye. The
name of George E. Senseney, for ten years editor
of the Winchester Republican, a sterling Whig
paper, has also been suggested. All are consid
ered Unconditional Union men, but, Bathe field is
a large one, it is probable other names will be pre
sented.
kEBSONAL.
—General Scott was seventy-eight years old on
the 13th met. •
—John Mitchell, late editor of two rebel pa
pers, has been sent to Fort Lafayette.
—Mrs. Lincoln is now temporarily' residing at
a country seat, five miles out of Chicago.
—Genoral Halleck is devoting his leisure hours
to a great history of the siege of Corinth.
—Daniel 11 Goodloe has been apmUnted Pai
te4l States Marshal for the District of Colunibia
—We are, informed by a Western Virginiacor
respondent that the rebel Gen. Early is insane:
. —Henry S. Foote, lately of Mississippi, is on
his way to California, "here he has children resi
ding.
—Judah P. Benjamin, the rebel Seereliry of.
State, la - reported' to have arrived safely at Ber
muda. •
—Ex-Governor Billy. Smith, of Virginia, bas
delivered himself to the authorities, and has been
paroled.
—Wm. L. Sharkey was yesterday apppointed
Provisional Governor of Mississippi by President
Johnktim
—John C. Breekinridge bae got to Havana.
No doubt he has plenty of mat) , old gold gored
awayi in England.
- -
—'rhe daughter of Charles Cotesworth 'Pinck
ney, {aged seventy, is receiving Government ta,
tions at Charleston.
—Speaker Colfax and party arrived at Salt
Lake on the 11th, and were received by the City
Coun'cila and citizens.
—Hon. Thad. Stevens has been rusticating at
Caledonia *mace for two weeks. He left for
Lancaster on Saturday last.
—Clarence A. Sewagd has been'appointed Act
ing Assistant Secretary of State, pending the sick
ness of his fathar and brother.
—Hon. W. W. BOyee. of South Carolina, hag
received an unconditional pardon, accompanimibi
a friendly letter from the President. .
—Hon. H. G. Maynard, of Tennessee, ism can
didate for Justice of the United States Supreme
Court, as a successor of Judge Catron.
—Mrs. Colonel Mulligan, of Chicago, has been
presented with $2500 in cashand a $5OOO home.
stead by admirers of her brave, dead hug*
—John Minor Botts, Alexander H. Rattinkand
other prominent Virginians, have arrivedit Wash
ington, and bad an interview with thegrOsident.
—The income of Governor Aiken,4 South
Carolina, before the war, was sloo,odo' crye'ar.
Now he ,does not own a dollar's worth of "pb4erty,
—Goy. Holden has witrdrawn from the editor
ship of the Raleigh Standard, and is succeeded
by his eon, Joseph H. Holden and Joseph S. Can
non.
—The notorious guerilla, Quantreli, died iu the
Louisville Military Hospital, on Wednesday, from
the effects of a wound received on.. the 10th of
May bulk
—Kirby Smith has gone - tolder.doN f .not, beini
anxious to test the question whether Leis within
the " forbidden degrees" of thearonesty procla
mation. The country can afford his absence.
—Edward J. Royo,colored, who twenty years
ago was a barber inVerra Haute, Ind., has been .
appointed Chief Justice of Liberia, to fill the va-,
cancy occasioned by the death of Rev. J. Boston
Drayton.
—Lieutenant James B. Cl y,a grandson of the
great Henry Clay. 1 the of Ashland, was
among the rebel prisoners Ito reported at Nash
ville on Wednesday
, rtst. eis 011 his way to
his "old Kentucky h me.'l 1
—Tlie youngest dughter'of Harriet Beecher
Stowe was marrie at St John's Episcopal
Church in Hartford Conn., on Wednesday morn
ing, to a wealthy E iseopal elesgrnan from Boy
ill
ton. The eeremOni was performed by Bishop
Clark, of Rhode Istria, - •
—Geri. Grant passed- through Harrisburg on
Wednesday afternoetr f ric the way to Washington
from Chicago, and renewed an enthusiastic re
ception. At Altoona he met with a fitting recep
tion from the Grand Commandery of Knight
Templars, now in session there.
—A son of Dr. Breekinridge haring returned
frOrn,the rebel army, the old man asked him, in
his quaint way, " My son, have yon found out what
you've been fighting for ?" U Yes, father," the
returned prodigal replied, " we're been trying to
get the nigger Into Kansas."
—John Minor Botts has defined his position.
He is not opposed to the new State of West-Vir
ginia: acknowledges Francis H. Pierpont as law
ful Governor of Virginia; accepts the abolition of
slavery: doubts the validity of the constitution
framed at Ale;Nandria, and is opposed to the ap
pointment of disloyal men to office.
—John A. Wise, a worthy brother of Henry
h:i4 recently written to Gen. Gordon, demand
ing from the Government a supply of limning im
plements, horses and seeds, oleunins a rebtora
ticM of his eitizauship'rights. and complaining of
his sufferings and losses during thwar, and that
his sons. four of whom he admits were in the re
bel army until its surrender. were not-allowed to
wear their,rebel uniform. Gen. Gordon replied
that he and his sons had been traitors to the goi
ernment.4nd were entitled to no fasor• from it,
but would receive such as, in its leniency, it might
V.N. proper to grant
--Among the visitors at the White House on
Thursday last was Gilbert Nanzant, a youth of
about thirteen }ears of age, at onertime a musi
cian in the 79th Ohio regiment, m2d•sdhsequently
an orderly at Gen. 'Ward's headquarters. The
object of his visit was to ask permission of the
President to take home with lulu a pony which,
as OW' of Sherman's "bummers, - be had captured.
Of course the President, with his large and patri
otic heart, could not refuse the request of so gal
lant a little fellow. Gilbert is a native of Port
William, Clinton county, Ohio. He made the
march with his regiment from Nashville to Atlan
ta. and was in several of the hardest. engage
ments. Altogether lie is voted to be a "bold sol
dier boy." and was - so regarded by the Presi
dent.
—Mrs. Lydia Huntley Sigourney died at Hart-.
ford, Connecticut, on Sunday, the 11th, aged 76.
She was born iu - the town of Norwich, in the same
State, SeptembEt, 1791, and early engaged in
teaching. She removed in Hartford in 1814, and
there 'published her first volume, which was enti
tled, " Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse." She
had previously written occasional pieces. She
married - in 1819, and not long after began to write
regularly. The amount of her work maybe jud
ged by the fact that she has written nearly if not
quite fifty Volumes, of all sizes, in all styles, and
on a great variety of subjects ; historical, educa
tional, hortatory, biographical and epistolary.
She visited Europe iu 1840, and published an ac
count tf her tour. The amount of Mrs. Sigour
ney's writings, joined to the admirable moral tone
and correit inculcations that belonged to them all,
gave her a popularity hardly inferior to that at
tained by any of our authoresses.
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
—Major General Ord has been ordered to Ore
gon, and Major General Terry to Virginia.
—Capt. Fouks, of the llth Ohio cavalry, and
100 men, - were attacked by about 500 Sioux
Indians, 15 miles from Fort Mitchell, on the 14th.
Capt. Fouks and four men were killed, and seven
were wounded. A number of Indians were killed.
—President Johnson has issued a proclamation
removing the restrictions upon internal, domestic
and coastwisetrade in the Southern States, except
goods contraband of war, and also declaring that
after the let of July all restrictions upon foreign
commerce with the coastwise ports shall be re
moved. •
—Cot. William S. A. Fish formerly Provost
Marshal of Baltimore, who by court martial, Sad
been dismissed from the service on account of al
leged iniproprieties, has been restored to hia full
rank, with back pay, President Johnson, who had
thoroughly examined the case and was satisfied
of ColTish'a innocense. -
—The Richmond Republic says: It is stated
that 75 pieces of property in Richmond have been
already libeled for confiscation, which is only a be
ginning. The proceeding is in rem, that is to say,
against the property itself—the owner not being
made a party to the cause. The term of the Fed
eral Court at which the libels will be proceeded
and acted upon will be held in the Fail.
—Free communication with Texas commenced
June 17th, and private steamers will soon run
along the coast, as usual. Governor Allen (re
bel) has published his farewell address, recom
mending the people to be loyal to the Union, and
industrious. Though he proposes to run away
himself, he advises refugees to return and go to
work. General Weitzel's command sailed from
the mouth of the Mississippi on the 12th. A large
command sailed in the same direction, from Key
West, some days previous.
AN INTERESTING LEAF OF HISTORY
In this week's Indtpen4 ult Mr. F. B. Carpen
ter gives the Fistory of the Emancipation Procla
mation, as Mr. Lincoln gave it to him, on the oc
casion of their first interview, as written down
by himself soon afterward. We quote:
"It had got to be," said he, "mid-summer,
1E62. Things had gone on from bad to worse,
until I felt that we had reached the end of our
rope 011 the plan of operation. we had been pun
suing ; that we had about played our last card,
and must change our tactics, or lose the game
I now determined on the adoption of the Emai-
Proclaination ; and, without consultation
with, or the knoWledge of, the Cabinet, I prepar
ed the original draft of the Proclamation, and,
after much anxious thought, called a Cabinet
meeting upon the subject. This was the last of
July, or the , first part of the month of August,
1862." (The exact date he did not remember.)
" This cabinet meeting took place, I think, upon
a Saturday. All were present excepting Mr.
Blair, the 'Postmaster General, who was absent
at the opening of the discussion, but came in sub
sequeatfy I-said to the Cabinet that I had re
solved upon this step, and had not called them to
gether to ask their advice, but to lay the subject
matter of a Proclamation before them ; sugges
tions as to which would be in order, after they
had heard it read. Mr. Lovejoy," said he, "was
in error when he informed you that it excited no
comment, excepting on the part of Secretary Sew
aid. Venous suggestions were offered. ' Secre
tary Chase wished the language stronger in refer
ence to the arming of the blacks. Mr. Blair, af
ter he came in, deprecated the policy on the ground
that it would cost the Administration the Fall
elections. Nothing, however, was offered thatl
had not already fully anticipated and settled i n
my own mind. until Secretary Seward spoke.
June 21i, 1865.
roii 'Mr. Presided I approve:ii(the-proc
lainatioe, bat I qiietition the expeilitmey?afttels
sue at thisjazieture. The depreision of the pub
lic mind, consequent upon our repeated reverses,
is so great that I fear the effeetof so iznportant a
step. It may be viewed as the measure of an ex
hausted Government—a cry for help; the Gov
ernment stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, -
instead of Ethiopia stretching forth her bands to
the Government" " His idea,"Said the Presi
dent, " was that it would be considered our last •
shriek ; on the retreat" (This was hit precise ex
pression.) ".Now," continued Mr. Seward, " while
I approve the measure, I suggest, Sir, that you
postpone its issue, until you can give it to the
country supported by militarrsuccess,•inde'ad of
issuing it, as 'would be the ease now, upon The
greatest .disasters of the warn' Said Mr. Lin
coln " The wisdom of the view of the Secretary
of State struck me with very great force. It,was
an aspect of the case that; in all my thought up
on the subject, I hid entirely overlooked. The
result was, that I put the'draft of the Proclama
tion aside, as you do your sketch for a picture,
waiting for a victory. From time to time I ad
ded or changed a line, touching it up here and
there, waiting tae progress of events. Well, the
next news we had was of Pope's disaster, at-Bull
Run. Things looked darker than ever.
y ivally,
came the week of the battle of Antietam. de,
termiaed to wait no longer. The news carne, I
think on Wednesday, that the advantage was on
our side. I was then staying at the ',Soldiers'
Home' (three miles out of Washington) Here
I finished writing the - second draft of the prelim
inary Proclamation; came up on Saturday; called
the Cabinet together to hear it, and,it was pub
lished the following Monday.
It was a somewhat remarkable 64; 4 ' bacon
tinued, " that there was just one 14ereff d4e,
between the dates' of the two preclrEittas, is
sued upon the 22d of September and- rst of
January. I had not made the calculation at the
time:"
, At the final meetiug on Saturday. another inter
esting incident occurred in connection with &ere
tary Seward. The President bad written the im
portant part of the Proclamation in these words:
"That on the firsr day ofJanuary, in the year
of bur Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty
three, all persons held us slaves within any State
Or designated part of l'etftte, the people whereof
shall then he, in rebellion reminat the United States.
shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free ;
anti the Executive Government of the United
.States. including the military and naval authority
thereof, will recognize the freedom of such per
anll.4, and will do no act or acts to repress such
persons, or any of them in any efforts they- may
make for their aetu - al freedom." "When I finished
reading that paragraph," resumed Mr. Lincoln,
"Mr. Seward stopped me, and said : 'I think, Mr.
President. you should insert after the word 're
cognize. in that sentence, the words and main
tain.' I replied that I had already fully con-•-
sidered the import of that expression in this con
nection. but I had not introduced it, because it
was not my way to promise what I was not, en
tirely sure that I could perform, and I was not
prepared to say that I thought we were exactly
:Able to " maintain " this.
" But," said he, " Mr. Seward insisted that we
ought-to take this ground: and the words finally
went in'"
Mr. Lincoln then -proceeded to show ine the
various . positions occupied by himself and the dif
ferent members of the Cabinet on the occasion of
the first meeting. "As nearly as I can remem
ber," said he, "the Secretary of the Treasury and
the Secretary of War were here on my right hand
—the others were grouped at the left."
Mr. Chase told me that the Cabinet meeting
immediately, after the battle of Antietam, and just
prior to the issue of the September proclamation.
the President entered upon the business before
them, by saying that "the time for the annuncia
tion of the emancipation policy could no longer
be delayed. Public sentiment," he thought,
"would sustain it, many of his warmest friends
and demanded it—and he had prom
ised his God that he would do it !" The last part
of this was uttered in a low tone, and appeared
to be heard by no one but Secretary Chase, who
woo sitting near him. He asked the President if
he correctly ,understood hint. Mr. Lincoln re.
plied, "I made a solemn vow before God that, if
General Lee was driven back from Penusylvania,
I would croWil the result .by the declaration of
freedom to the slaves !"
HORRIBLE AFFAIR LC ILLINOIS.
Tili3 - Quincy (III.) Herald of the 3d instant,
comes to us with a long account of the doings of
a mob in that town on the Wednesday previous, ,
and the subsequent lynching of a guerrilla cap
tain. It appears that the captain, who was woun
ded, and whose name was Rose, ww4oufined in
the jail at Quincy, when the citizens-and soldiers
to the number of five hundred hearing of it, com
menced to assemble around the jail, and sent in
formal demands-for the, surrender of the rebel.
On their demand being denied some orthe party
scaled the high'fence which protects the entries to
the jail-yard, and by means of billets of wood and
hammers fiirced an entrance, seized the body of
the wounded and dying bushwacker, and imme
diately dragged him into the street, amid the vo
ciferous cries of " hang him," " shoot him," &c.,
The miserable man was then dragged through the
street, and taken to a spot in the woods about a
mile out of town. Here a ring was formed around
the man, who too weak to stand, was lying on hie
side. A minister then prayed - with him, after
which a reporter seated hunself.dieside him, with
the expectation of receiving his:Confession. - The'
prisoner said he lived in Troy Siissouri; had sup
ported Douglas for the Presidency, and after
wards Mr. Henderson for the Senate, and after
his house' had been burned by the militia he had
joined. Kirby Smith's army. After this the ring
was cleared, a rush was made for the prisoner,
and he was dragged to the place of execution=
the tree. He did not display the weakness of a
coward on such an occasion, but seemed to nerve
himself for the worst. There was nothing unu.:
seal about his appearance more than a bright and
lustrous eye. Hewes placed upon some boxes,
prepared as a platfonn with his hands-pinioned
behind him- Before the rope was placed around
his neck he fainted, and fell groaning backward
to the earth. Considerable confusion resulted
from this, and cries from the crowd were vocif
erously sounded, " Tie him where he lies;"—
" Hurry hini lip," Rose was again placed upon
the stand, growing weaker every minute. Just
before the handkerchief was placed around his
eyes he asked to be shot, and again spoke ofhis
wife and children. The noose adjusted, and
the boxes kicked over, and Rose was left dang
ling in the air. He struggled but little. We
thought his neck was broken by the falL The
execution took place five minutes after twelve.
Rose was a well built man, very muscular, five feet
five or Mx inches in height and twenty seven
years of age. While hanging, some of the par.
ticipanta in the execution took hold of the body
and started to swing it to and - fro; others uttered
brutal jests.- On the next day the mob assembled
around the jail, bent on having the`associates of
Rose, but this time their plans were thwarted.
General Prentiss, Hon. J N. Arnold, and others
dia all in their power to appease the ferocity of
the lawless men, but all to no purpose.
THE RE-UNION OF THE METHODIST CHURCH
Twenty yetirs ago, in the month of May, the
General Conference of the Methodist Church sit
ting in the city of New York, was rent in twain
on the question of- slavery. _ In the State street
Methodist Church, Mobile, on Sunday, May 21st,
the question was put by the Rev Mr. Taylor to
the vast 'audience, of returning to the old church,
North, as it is sometimes called, and the vote
was unanimous. The Knoxville Whig says:—
" Bishop Clarke and Rev. Dr. Poe, of Cincinnati,
will attend at Athens, East Tennessee, June Ist,
to organize a loyal Holston conference, and such
ministers aswish to join the new conference are
invited to attend. Those out of whom the legisins
of devils have been cast by the terrible exorcism
of civil war, will attend at Athens, and those who
still pant for the flesh-pots of Egypt, and hope of
get back their uegroes, will stay away, in the hope
of getting their lost right in the demoralized
church, South."
A SuGGEntvr. STATEMENT. — Theyetersburg
(Va.) Nests, of & late date, makes the following
suggesfwe statement:
"In this whole commonwealth there-is sot, as
far as we know, a glass factory, a button factory,
a paper mill, a broom factory, a manufactory of
wooden ware, a braes fondly, a porcelain facto
ry, a chair factory, a carpet mill, a pin machine, -
an agricultural implement factory, a matinfactory
for cutlery, a type foundry, a factory'wherein a
single article of printer's use is made, a brewery,
a calico print factory, a lock factory, a linen-fac
tory, a cotton factory, abovecapacitS for. the com
monest work.
REBELS CHEER THE FLAH.—A correspondent
writes as follows from Point Lookout, Md., un
der date of June 9, 186 . 5
"This morning about ten or eleven o'clock the
prisoners of war at this point 'raised a flag daff
in their camp and then unfurled the old flag that
they hnd fought so hard against for four years !
How they cheered it , when the wind held it out
so that they could see that all the stars and stripes
were still there; not one gone; but all the mote
bright anOtoutiful because now floating over rto
entirely free country!"